Quality Writing and Business Planning for the Scuba Diving Industry

Scuba Diving Specialist

There is nothing ordinary about Scuba Diving, so do not use an ordinary writer for your diving content or business planning. Get a specialist.

Tourism and Hospitality

Tourism and Hospitality content marketing is different from travel writing. A young backpacker might be able to excite a reader to visit your property or destination, however, can you really expect him to understand your needs as well?

Have WIFI, Will Travel

A travel writer should be a traveler. I have extensively traveled for over 30 years. From Camping to cruises to Luxury hotels, from run down buses to private jets, I have experienced the world. I consider myself a part time Digital Nomad as I travel for 6 months each year

Scuba Diving

Scuba Divers can tell if an article was written by an experience diver. Poorly written material reflects on you and being look at as an authority. Certified in 1997 with over 500 dives. In 2014 over 150 webpages, 100 articles and 250 curated items for Scuba Diving Websites

Content Marketing

My background allows me to write in a wide range of topics and extends beyond basic content for webpages. Brochures, Press Releases, E-mail campaigns, marketing plans and business plans are all within my scope.

Scuba Diving Content

As an experience and dedicated writer and scuba diver, I can deliver content geared towards recreational divers at all skill levels. Certified in 1997 with over 500 dives. In 2014, I produced over 150 webpages, 2 ebooks, 100 articles and 200 curated items for Scuba Diving Websites. Your clients and website visitors deserve quality content. Scuba Diving Niche details

Content Marketing

My background includes a wide range of different types of content. I have had articles published in magazines, was a technical and educational writer for the U.S. Army, done business writing before moving on to tourism marketing and other topics.This allows me to write in a wide range of topics and extends beyond basic content for webpages.

Travel Content

30 years ago, I realized that I had never had a real vacation. I made a New Year’s resolution to start traveling, kept that resolution and never stopped. I currently spend about half my time traveling and never missed a deadline. Couple my travel with my experiences in both the hospitably and tourism industries gives me insight to both sides of the desk for my travel content

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Coming Soon

A few friends suggested this book. It is more of a lifestyle book than a cook book. The focus of the book is to get someone who does not cook into the kitchen and able to create a few impressive meals. It does have a few of my “Cooking To Impress” recipes. It up to the reader to determine which social activity they wish to employ the meals.

UDEMY Course

Another ongoing project is an Udemy course on becoming Location Independent and a Digital Nomad. The outline is done and I have started to record the video lessons.

Elance

Quality Writing and Business Planning For The Scuba Diving Industry

Scuba divers are like motorcyclist, there is an instant infinity between them. Most of us have a passion for diving. We bask in the shared excitement of diving and often tell "war" stories of our different dives to other divers. We share details of good dives and bad, talk about our favorite dive sites and almost worship our diving kit. We get tips from more experienced divers and pass on our golden nuggets of knowledge to those new to the sport. When we are on a dive boat, be it a six pax or something larger, we tend to judge other divers skills as we get ready to dive. We may subconsciously judge who we can trust and who we might need to keep an eye on and hopefully it not the diver the dive master "assigned" as our dive buddy.

Just as we can often tell if a diver is "faking" it on a dive boat, pretending to be more skilled then they are, we can read an article and tell if the writer is a qualified diver as well. As an example, I once came across an article online about one of my favorite dive sites. Much of the material in the article was copied from pages in my diving book just slightly reworded. As I read it, it appeared to me that the re-writer was not a diver. One sentence really confused me. It stated that the wreck became visible at 60 feet. That wreck is only in 20 to 30 feet of water. It took me a few seconds to realize that I had wrote that the dive site had up to 60 feet of visibility. Clearly a rewrite mistake a diver would not make. How often have you cringed at a news article when you read about the "oxygen" bottles that scuba divers use?

In 2014, I produced over 150 webpages, 100 articles, 2 e-books and 200 curated items for Scuba Diving Websites or companies around the world. The majority of those items were written for three websites: one based in Britain which I have written for weekly started in Early 2013, An Australian company with daily dive boats and a Liveaboard which I started writing for in January 2014 , and a Ukraine based website which I started writing for in June 2014. All three are continuing into 2015. Use the profile link above to see of some of this content. I also did one on-site business evaluation. In previous years I have also done Marketing plans for local dive resorts, a business plan for a new dive resort and a concept plan followed by a business plan for a liveaboard.

Your goal is to make you website the authority on your niche. You want your clients or readers to always come back for more. To turn to you for advice on that next purchase or guidance for that next dive trip. It is my function to help make that happen, with quality and focused content or business analysis. If you believe that your content marketing and the needs of your clients and customers deserve high quality targeted content, then we should talk.

The Diving Me

I will admit it was as a child that I first became interested in scuba diving, The Sea Hunt television program and James Bond movies were a big draw. One of my good friends in High School was a YMCA instructor, however, back then the swimming requirement was much more intense then it is now so I did not get certified back then. For a number of reasons, I did not became a certified diver until 18 years ago. I am an advance open water diver with eight specialties and have over 500 dives. Someday I will take some time and get my rescue diver certification and receive my Master Diver level.

While not a dive professional, I do have experience on the business side having created business plans for both PADI and SSI facilities. I have also help develop new dive resorts. I have been a member of the Board of Advisors (same as Board of Directors) of the Subic Bay Dive Association for over seven years. The Subic Bay Dive Association is a Not for Profit organization made up of the owners/ managers of dive related companies in the Subic Bay Philippines area. The association promotes scuba diving to the destination and acts as a representative of its members in issues related to diving to local government units. The association also has seats on a couple of regional tourism organizations. As a member of the Board of Advisors of I been involved with all aspects of dive operations and dive tourism.